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Letten PatentNo. 83,912, dated November 10, 1868.

STENCIL-:PLATE FOR` NUMBERING- BARRELS, 8:6.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part-0f the Hamel Be it known that I, J AMES HENRY BRADFORD, of the town of Westbrough, county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, haved invented certain new and useful Devices for Increasing the Facility and Rapidity of Markingand Numbering Barrels, Boxes, and Packages of Goods, for directing ordescribingthe saine, and I hereby declare the following to be a full and sufi- .cient description] thereof, reference being had to the outside or top plate A turned on its centre-pin to the extreme leftofthe figure, revealing the three concentric rows or curves, each containing the nine digits and a cipher, to be explained herein below.

Figure 3 represents the whole grou-p of plates, four in number, extended or opened out, on their centrepin, equidistant from each other, each occupying the quadrant of a circle. l

The nature of the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of a number of stencil-plates, to form a compound plate, by which any number or series of numbers maybe marked in right lines, Whether horizontal, oblique, or vertical.

The arrangement seen in the present case provides for the three rows of figures, which may number from 1 to' 999, inclusive. It is a compound plate, composed of four singleplates, connected by a common centrepin, E, which passes through each plate, and on which the plate may be turned at will, as appears by inspecting g. 3.

.The top plate A is the shield or cover for those on which it rests, and contains three openings, AI A2 A3, which represent the three curved concentric lines of' figures. A represents the inner curved line, A2 the first and second together, and A3 the outer line, including the second and the first, to be read as three figures side by Side. Through the rstds read a single figure only; through the second, two figures, orl

unit and ten; and through the third, three figures, or a unit, ten, and hundreds place. It is this combination and arrangement of several concentric curved lines of figures, toform an arrangement of figures in right lines, covering two or more places of figures, as shown in thedrawings, and described in the specification, that constitute the gist of the invention.

From what has been said, it is obvious, from inspecting figs. 2 and 3, that the sections B, C, and D, turning on centre-pin E,;may be so rotated as toarepresent, in a horizontal line, any number, from 1 to 999 inclu-f sive, by merely sliding these curved lines of figures on each other. Thus, using iig. 2, suppose we wish' to mark, on a box, 159. Looking on tig. 2, We find 555 on the middle line. Bring upthe outer curve till its figure 9 is opposite the 5, and bring down the inner curve till its figure 1 is opposite the figure 5 of the middle curve, and we have the figures sought. N ow rotate the shield A till openingAa is brought exactly over the figures 159, apply the rnarkingbrush to the stencil-plate, and the work is done.

What I claim as my invention, and -desire to secure by patent, is

The combination. of two or more concentric curves of the nine digits, for marking numbers in horizontal or other right lines, substantially as described.

JAMES HENRY BRADFORD.

Witnesses:

S. B. NEWTON, H. E. SWAN. 

